Securing Sustainable Futures

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Securing Sustainable Futures
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Women Agents for ChangeBuilding Sustainable
Futures

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Building Sustainable Futures

• Sustainable means able to be maintained
• Sustainable Development is defined
  asDevelopment that meets the needs of the
  present without compromising the ability of
  future generations to meet their own needs

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Needsyou might have mentioned

• Air - clean
• Water - safe
• Housing - adequate
• Food - safe, adequate
• Income - adequate, reliable
• Health - services available

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Needsyou might have mentioned

• Transportation
• Industry
• Agriculture
• Economic prosperity
• Biodiversity
• Cultural diversity
• Gender equality

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Issuesyou might have identified

• Poverty
• Climate change
• Pollution
• Overcrowded cities
• Conflict
• Shortage of natural resources

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Eventsthat may occur

• Floods
• Drought
• Deforestation
• Earthquakes
• Tsunamis

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Activitiesproviding challenge

• Energy
• Sanitation waste management
• HIV/AIDS, Malaria

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Education for sustainable futures
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Women Agents for Change

• We are over 500 university graduates - Women
  Agents for Change
• Education is the KEY to change
• Together we form a global network of many NFAs
• We are turning global aims to local action
  glocal

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Educated Women Making a Difference
We are here in Manchester 10-16 August 2007 to
renew our determination to be agents for
change through education for sustainable futures
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Turning global to local
By encouraging and supporting discussion, study,
research projects, IFUW members can contribute
to building sustainable futures and achieving the
global goals of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration
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Examples of action

• Making recommendations and resolutions
• Developing community action programmes
• Cooperating with other organizations, including
  Project Five-O UNIFEM
• Organizing workshops and seminars

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Education for sustainable futures
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Environmental Decision-making for sustainable
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Involvement of women is essential
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Erosion
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Protection
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Blast mining
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Reclamation stabilization
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Stabilization

• Planting and construction of retaining structures

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Mining deforestation
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Water issues
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problems are varied
be alert!
act now!
later is too late
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Excerpts from The Middle-earth
Connection Changing the Future
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Human rights for sustainable futures
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Balance

• Meeting the needs of the future can be described
  as the need to balance social development with
  economic development and environmental protection

SocialDevelopment
Environmental Protection
EconomicDevelopment
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